comfortnoun
uk/ˈkʌm.fət/us/ˈkʌm.fɚt/comfort noun (NO PAIN)
B1 [ U ] a pleasant feeling of being relaxed and free from pain:
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- The car offers value for money, comfort and dependability.
- She drew comfort from the fact that he died peacefully.
- He wanted a job that would allow him to keep his family in comfort.
- These jeans have added Lycra for comfort and fit.
- Since I got a job, I've been living in relative comfort .
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Calm and relaxed
- (as) cool as a cucumber idiom
- at (your) leisure idiom
- be at peace with the world idiom
- carefree
- careless
- comfortably
- easy come, easy go idiom
- easy-going
- equilibrium
- free-flowing
- genteel
- harmonious
- lamb
- peaceful
- poised
- quiescent
- relaxed
- rested
- sangfroid
- sedate
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comfort noun (FOR SADNESS)
C2 [ C or U ] the state of feeling better after feeling sad or worried, or something that makes you feel better in this way:
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Reassuring
- assure
- be/take a weight off your mind idiom
- calm (sb) down
- comforting
- consolation
- console
- consoling
- consolingly
- convince
- emollient
- get (sth) through (to sb)
- heartened
- heartening
- lighten
- mind
- no news is good news idiom
- reassuring
- should
- they should worry! idiom
- weight
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comfort noun (ENOUGH MONEY)
C2 [ U ] the state of having a pleasant life with enough money for everything that you need:
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Rich and wealthy
- bazillionaire
- be rolling in it idiom
- born
- clover
- deep
- deep pockets idiom
- easy
- feather
- feather your own nest idiom
- flush
- landed
- landowner
- live high on/off the hog idiom
- live off the fat of the land idiom
- on easy street idiom
- privilege
- rags-to-riches
- roll
- stinking
- strike
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comfort noun (PLEASANT THING)
C1 [ C usually plural ] something that makes your life easy and pleasant:
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Making things better
- a shot in the arm idiom
- add salt to sth idiom
- allay
- alleviate
- ameliorate
- make sb/sth over
- mitigate
- mollify
- more
- palliate
- redeem
- relieve
- salve
- spice
- spice sth up
- sting
- straighten
- straighten sb out
- streamline
- tonic
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comfortverb [ T ]
uk/ˈkʌm.fət/us/ˈkʌm.fɚt/C2 to make someone feel better when they are sad or worried:
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Reassuring
- assure
- be/take a weight off your mind idiom
- calm (sb) down
- comforting
- consolation
- console
- consoling
- consolingly
- convince
- emollient
- get (sth) through (to sb)
- heartened
- heartening
- lighten
- mind
- no news is good news idiom
- reassuring
- should
- they should worry! idiom
- weight
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